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Professor Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, M.D., F. A. C.P
Gabriel is currently the Nellie B. Connally Chair in Breast Cancer Research, Director of the Breast Cancer Research program of U. T. M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and Chairman of the Department of Breast Medical Oncology. Dr Hortobagyi has dedicated all his clinical and research efforts to breast cancer since the completion of his fellowship training at U. T. M. D Anderson Hospital, Houston, Texas in 1976. Over the following 20 years he led the clinical development of numerous new cytotoxic and hormonal agents and has had uninterrupted external support for his clinical research group since the late 1970’s. During this time he and his colleagues developed successful curative treatment regimens for locally advanced and inflammatory breast cancer. Dr Hortobagyi was President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2006-2007) and has served on the Board of Directors of ASCO. He has also chaired the International Affairs Committee, the Cancer Education Committee (2000-2001, the Nominating Committee (1999-2001) of ASCO and President of the International Society of Senology (1996-1998) Since 2007 Dr Hortobagyi has served as Chair of the Southwest Oncology Group Breast Committee and is currently Chair of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Data and Safety Monitoring Committee. He is a corresponding member of the National Academy of Medicine for both Argentina and Mexico and an external member of the National Academy of Sciences, Hungary. Dr Hortobagyi currently serves on the editorial board of 12 journals, has published over 900 articles of which over 600 are original full-length articles in peer-reviewed journals, over 130 book chapters and has edited or co-edited 9 books.